And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

Images - called so from a Hebrew root [chaamam], to wax hot, implying the mad ardour of Israel after idolatry (Calvin). Others translate [ chamaaneeykem (H2553)], sun-images; and so in Ezekiel 6:6, (see 2 Kings 23:11, where Josiah is stated to have burned "the chariots of the sun with fire;" 2 Chronicles 34:4, margin; and Isaiah 17:8, margin.) The cognate word [ chamaah (H2535)] means the Sun. The name applied in Egypt to Jupiter, the chief god, is Amoun or Ammon, which is probably akin to the word here. Sun-worship was the oldest form of idolatry.

Cast ... your slain men before your idols. The foolish objects of their trust in the day of evil should witness their ruin.

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